Burlap Covered Lamp Shades With Scrap Flowers

I have been picking up some basic lampshades and in the garage they have sat....

I had a bit of motivation and some burlap!

I love covering lamp shades, because you can get so creative and pretty much anything goes.

The first time I ever attempted covering a shade I used a pattern, just an fyi that it not the easiest first attempt, lol!

A fun solid pattern like the above are a piece of cake.

Just lay the fabric on the floor and wrap it around the shade to ensure you have enough.

Then grab some spray adhesive (make sure you do a light even coat) and slowly smooth your fabric over the shade.

I use a sharp hobby (razor) knife to trim the edges and lightly hot glue them under the inside rim.

Then decorate to your hearts desire!

I love making scrap flowers, usually I make these when I am watching the kiddos during bath time!  It's all about multi-tasking when your a Mom, right?

Easy, fun project!  Try it out!

Subway Art DIY

I finally finished my DIY Subway Art!  Literally this has taken me months!  Not because it was super difficult, I just couldn't get that motivation.  So yesterday afternoon I was supposed to be doing book work for my hubs business....but guess what?  Motivation struck instead, lol!

I was so motivated when I saw this tutorial from From Gardners 2 Bergers.  Becca did a great job on her instructions...but I still couldn't figure it out!  I played around with my Word program but I really didn't have any luck.  I had to talk myself into this "I am a smart girl, right?"  add that with the fact that I really, really wanted some of this art in my house!  So I started looking at photo editing sites.  I finally settled on iPiccy.com

Once you are on the site you have the option to create a new blend.  Then you just choose fonts and sizes and go to town.  I created the whole piece....it took me awhile.  I ended up choosing fun words from our home town.  Then I save the image on a U-drive.

Then I hit another road block.  Becca finally found a Staples that did an engineers print.  Well I don't have a Staples by me.  I called the Office supply store closest and they had no idea...great!  We do have Office Max and Office Depot, I so cannot remember which one ended up having this BUT THEY DO!!!

I didn't have the best little gal in copies at the store; really I got all of her life stories and different stories of her having to deal with customers when she is really hungry because it is almost lunch time! (For real) (I am not kidding)  They didn't know what an engineers copy was but I just explained that there was a black and white copy that I can get really big for really cheap, lol!  Luckily she finally figured it out!

After about an hour and a half, and yes I came home with 2 because she couldn't get it to print the full 30x40.  She said I will have to come back and someone that knew a little more would have to help me....let's face it, I was spent!  Mine ended up being 24x24.

I was super excited but then these prints sat and sat at my house!

Yesterday, I pulled out the jigsaw and trimmed a piece of thin plywood for my backing.

Then I applied Modge Podge all over the board to adhere the poster.

Next I lined up the poster to the board and used the handy dandy Home Depot Gift Card to run over the top and get the bubbles out.  Don't panic!  There is only a couple of dollars on the gift card, lol!

I wanted my piece really distressed so if you don't you will have to be really careful rubbing on the top.  The black comes off really easy!

Next I flipped it over to attach the edges.

I stapled the back side down and on the corners, I folded these similar to when you do a corner on upholstery.

Next I distressed the entire piece, I really wanted it to look old.  I took some really fine steel wool and ran it over the entire print.  For the hanger my husband help me screw in some knoted jute twine.  I liked this look, kind of industrial.

This should be sealed with a spray sealer for paper; yeah I haven't done that yet!  I don't think anyone will touch it up on the wall, but the black does rub off when you do.

You can see this as you walk in my front door; makes me smile every time!  Love it!

So what do you think of Subway Art?  Do you love it or hate it?

Sisal Knot Vase

I was scrolling through some pictures and I forgot to show you all this fun little craft project I completed the other day.  Well I better get to it!

You will need

3/8" Sisal twine (from any hardware store)
Glass vase (any size)
Hot Glue

Clean the vases...obviously I didn't do this until after because I am strange like that.  Oh and if you have really nasty ones like this, what I use is the Xfine steel wool.  It worked awesome!

Just start by putting a stream of hot glue on the bottom edge and start wrapping the twine.  In the beginning you will want to use hot glue on all the parts, but as you move up you only need a little bit.

Aww, clean much better!  Keep wrapping however you like it.  For these I was thinking some sand and a candle so I went about a quarter of the way up.

Leave about 12" at the end, then tie a knot and adjust where you like it and glue away.

Thats it!  Pretty easy fun project right?  I wish I had a picture to show you on a mantle, but I ran them to the booth and they were gone right away, oops!  I better go and make some more, doesn't your own home always come last?

Enjoy your day!

Easy Chicken Wire Memo Board

One of my favorite projects is to make chicken wire memo boards.  They are quick, easy, and super cute all hung up!

Here's the low down:

Find an old frame.  Here is mine; a very dated hunter green beauty.

Break out all the goodies so the frame is empty.  (I kind of jumped to the break apart before I remembered to take a pic, sorry!)  Now if you want the chicken wire in it's natural form, you will want to paint your frame before moving onto the next step.  For this project I am painting the wire as well.

Flip the frame over and staple the chicken wire to the back of the frame.  This frame was kind of a pain; my wire was too short, so I improvised and overlapped the wire.

Don't worry about the frame edge, or try to make it look nice when you are stapling.  You will flip it over and no one will notice-awesome!  This is still in the hunter green form, with the silver chicken wire.

Once my wire was all stapled down I flipped it over and spray painted the entire thing.

I love the look of clothespins for the hangers.  Of course I have to glam them up a bit, here's how:

Find a piece of scrap book paper.  Trace your clothespin on the back of the paper and cut it out.

Grab the infamous Modge Podge, or you can use some plain old white glue (I have used them both with equal results).  Attach the paper to the clothespin.

TA..DA..  Easy, peasy, cute memo board!

I made this cute black one for my new office at work!

This is one from my daughters room, perfect little spot for her artwork!  Hers has bee up awhile, looking like it needs a new coat of paint, lol!

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First Blog Project Old Window Family Rules

So funny story; a little over a year ago I didn't even know what a blog was really!  Kind of strange to me now, but I didn't have friends that blogged or even spoke about them!  Most of you probably don't know but I work full-time, so I didn't spend much of my "home time" on the computer.  I am on the computer all day at work, so at home I usually just work on my little crafty goodies, rearrange my furniture (I am a constant furniture mover, any of those out there?...hubs hates it), and paint my house (another problem, I get sick of colors pretty quickly).  Well almost a year ago I had my third munchkin..I can't believe this year has gone so fast!  I got bored pretty quickly at home on maternity leave.  Luckily for me my awesome brother in law knew my love for old goodies and brought me a stack of old windows from a job he was doing, Whoop!  I had them stacked on the side of the house and since I was bored, I thought I would Google "Old Window Ideas".  Guess what I found?  My first decorating/DIY home blog obsession!  Home Stories from A to Z!  I think I was up up until about 2am scouring this website!  I was in love!  From there I was lead to so many more inspirations my brain was exploding!  I wanted to share with you all my first project that I found on Beths website.

Family Rules Old Window-here is my project done from A to Z tutorial.  I changed a few things (you know I had to add my own touch, lol)

You can find the tutorial on how to make this cute project here!  Beth really inspired me, I am so glad I found her blog and got "sucked" into home decor blogs, I absolutely love them!

I am a lucky girl to have these windows huh?  I have a matching set of this particular style, I just scraped it down a bit and left it!  I love!  Don't you love finding projects from all these creative people all over the world?  So awesome!

Have an inspired day!

Adriane

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